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Quotes About Private

The siren song of redistribution of wealth by centralized government never ceases for those who seek irreversible and unusurpable control over the lives and liberties of private citizens.
~ Josh Jones
The government competes in the private sector the way an alligator competes with a duck.
~ Mike Pence
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
~ Herbert Hoover
Government cannot and must not replace private initiative.
~ Kim Campbell
Anything that government can do, private enterprise can do for half the cost.
~ Milton Friedman
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions.
~ John Rawls
Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.
~ Bill Gates
The government can help, but we need to make this transition now to a recovery led by private investment.
~ Timothy Geithner
There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.
~ Michel de Montaigne
The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The one thing that flies in the face of all human history and experience, is that the government can do a superior job than the private sector.
~ James Cook
Take away the government's monopoly, and private groups will do it better.
~ John Stossel
When the private sector fails, the solution is more government. When the government fails, the solution is more government.
~ Glenn Reynolds
Conservatives brayed that government should stay out of the private sector; liberals bleated for nationalizing the banks.
~ Steven Rattner
Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
I'm not a big government guy. I believe in private industries taking care of people. I think they do a better job.
~ Scott Baio
Government should take management lesson from private sector.
~ Newt Gingrich
Any so-called stimulus program is a ruse. The government can increase its spending only by reducing private spending equivalently.
~ Richard Wagner
Every form of happiness is private. Our greatest moments are personal, self-motivated, not to be touched".
~ Ayn Rand
People don't trust private health insurance companies for all the right reasons.
~ Bernie Sanders
Insurance companies, whether private or government owned, must be compelled to pay for health-promoting measures. In turn, this will encourage physicians to offer such treatments in earnest.
~ Andrew Weil
Canada is currently the only major industrialized country in the world that does not allow any private administration of health care services that are provided by the public system.
~ Cliff Stearns
I will try and remember always to approach God in secret with as much reverence in speech, posture, and behavior as in public. Help me, Thou who knowest my frame and pitiest as a father his children.
~ David Livingstone
It is my ambition to be, as a private individual, abolished and voided from history, leaving it markless.
~ William Faulkner